Mismatch in Law School

We thank Richard Abel, William Bowen, Lee Epstein, Tom Kane, Larry Katz, Andrew Martin, Jide Nzelibe, Max Schanzenbach, Nancy Staudt, two anonymous referees, and seminar participants at NBER, UCSB, Duke, Vassar, the Universities of Michigan and Virginia, Northwestern, Washington University, and the Ramon Areces Foundation for helpful comments and suggestions. We are extremely grateful to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for financial support and to Elizabeth Debraggio, Jessica Goldberg and Ashley Miller for excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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